Publisher's Synopsis
Following the failure of his first marriage, Philip Maynard has travelled to South Africa in order to take up a position as a mathematics master in a government school. In Johannesburg he meets the beautiful Marnie van Vollenhoven and falls deeply in love with her, yet Philip's relationship with her is one of unfulfilled longing and eventual despair. Returning to England, Philip meets and marries Edith Armitage. But can their union survive a return to South Africa and another encounter with Marnie?
